Post by Hurricane on Nov 8, 2006 12:01:32 GMT 1
Harry Wilson (249 40-41) writes that it is good to be kept up to date and to recall memories of squadron days.
Harry joined 249 at Church Fenton and one of his memories is of managing night flying at a Fenton satellite airfield, equipped with a TR9D radio, two Aldis lamps (red and green), an angle of glide indicator and a flare path of 2.5v accumulator glim lamps, with auxiliary goose flares. There were five 249 Hurricane Mk 1s flying that night and Harry says you can imagine the confusion when six sets of navigation lights were counted flying around the circuit.
Harry moved to Boscombe Down with the Squadron, where Flt Lt Nicholson became his Flight Commander and where, of course, he won his VC, and then to North Weald. When the Squadron was sent to Malta in May, 1941, Harry went off to Cranwell for more training and a varied career until 1945.
The Hon. Secretary comments that Harry now lives in Burton Upon Trent and has remarkably fine handwriting.
Harry joined 249 at Church Fenton and one of his memories is of managing night flying at a Fenton satellite airfield, equipped with a TR9D radio, two Aldis lamps (red and green), an angle of glide indicator and a flare path of 2.5v accumulator glim lamps, with auxiliary goose flares. There were five 249 Hurricane Mk 1s flying that night and Harry says you can imagine the confusion when six sets of navigation lights were counted flying around the circuit.
Harry moved to Boscombe Down with the Squadron, where Flt Lt Nicholson became his Flight Commander and where, of course, he won his VC, and then to North Weald. When the Squadron was sent to Malta in May, 1941, Harry went off to Cranwell for more training and a varied career until 1945.
The Hon. Secretary comments that Harry now lives in Burton Upon Trent and has remarkably fine handwriting.